anon7725

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by anon7725 3mo ago
You’re out of your element, Donny.
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by anon7725 3mo ago
> I support the CHIPS Act and IRA So do I. As I understand it, those bills involved incentives that any company could access provided that they met the conditions (manufacture in US, etc). The IRA also provided direct incentives to consu
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by anon7725 3mo ago
I am not the original commenter, but I interpret it to mean that large corporations can almost always arrange it so that they don't pay tax or don't pay their fair share of tax. 88 companies paid $0 tax on $105B in profit in 2025[
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by anon7725 3mo ago
In your own codebase you can at least run a "you simulator" to arrive at the answer fairly reliably. "Where would I have put this bit? Oh yes, of course ..."
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by anon7725 3mo ago
It's 2026 - they should change their fucking name.
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by anon7725 3mo ago
In this case, one of the packages is uninspiring and the other is fascism, so the choice is fairly clear.
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by anon7725 3mo ago
> Asking Claude to think about “good ways to structure this” or asking how similar problems get solved in industry or high profile projects has really helped me design better solutions I think this highlights the difference between the “
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by anon7725 3mo ago
Is there a cleaner, more consistent technology for baseload? At a certain point, dollars are funny money if you are destroying the environment to save a few now by generating baseload with a carbon-producing tech. Of course, let’s build the
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by anon7725 3mo ago
Musk explicitly centered his DOGE effort on rooting out “woke” programs. This included pulling funding from independent research under the auspices of various government departments. The Trump administration spent considerable effort strong
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by anon7725 3mo ago
Fascists do claim to support free speech while wielding the apparatus of state to ensure that any speech that they disagree with is suppressed, eg on college campuses.
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by anon7725 3mo ago
> So if tomorrow AIs decide that they are alive, it would be morally incumbent upon them to adapt the world to support themselves, correct? The only system of morality that applies to LLMs is their effect on us and the planet. Don’t anth
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by anon7725 3mo ago
> "Alive" is irrelevant Alive is always relevant. Our moral consideration must place beings that are alive or processes that support the life on this planet above things which are not alive. In a just world, it must be adapted
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by anon7725 3mo ago
> AI is better at this than you. Maybe so, but I am better at this when I engage with AI in a controlled manner.
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by anon7725 3mo ago
I choose A. I know that many others choose A as well. A wonderful service known as the web has connected people who choose A with others who choose A and of course with a great many who don’t need to make a choice and benefit from the work
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by anon7725 3mo ago
We understand what you’re claiming, we just think that you are wrong.
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by anon7725 4mo ago
> These can be tools to destroy the oppression that governs our lives So far it seems that the clearest use for these tools is to enhance, rather than destroy, oppression. 1. Suppression / elimination of white collar jobs 2. Negativ
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by anon7725 4mo ago
And to close the loop - there is no architectural thinking without experience in execution. The highly productive people who are all-in on agentic coding today are powered by their previous experience doing implementation. As time goes on t
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by anon7725 4mo ago
It is truly vile to compare concerns about LLMs to anti-immigrant discrimination.
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by anon7725 4mo ago
The contrarian bet is that being able to code (by yourself) may be more valuable in the future. It will certainly become rarer.
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by anon7725 4mo ago
It’s Jason Zweig, the Wall Street Journal personal finance columnist, not a YC alum.
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by anon7725 4mo ago
"To explicitly declare that a certain class implements a given protocol, it can be used as a regular base class. In this case a class could use default implementations of protocol members. Static analysis tools are expected to automati
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by anon7725 4mo ago
> so I'm pretty sure the new preferred way is to explicitly use abstract superclasses... just like Java did all along (and is mandatory). typing.Protocol is a good fit for this use case from typing import Protocol class Has
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by anon7725 4mo ago
I don’t think this captures the full story. The US has a bimodal standard of living reflected as a lower mean relative to other advanced nations. It can be simultaneously true that immigrants to the U.S. from both advanced and developing na
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by anon7725 4mo ago
Ours is a culture that can no longer whip the llama’s ass.
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by anon7725 4mo ago
On our present trajectory, any new super intelligence will be the billionaire’s plaything. Hope is indeed needed to see how it would benefit the common person.
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by anon7725 5mo ago
If the smarts came from post-training, we could show significant gains by doing that post-training again for previous generations of models. But we know that isn’t happening - effective post training is necessary but not sufficient for mode
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by anon7725 5mo ago
You have framed things well with your short and long g term analysis. I would add these points to negative long-term personal effects: - potential for cognitive impairment / deficit from long-term AI use. - lack of diversity / cre
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by anon7725 5mo ago
> By my back of the envelope calculations, we produce something like 300kg of CO2 annually simply by breathing. I would prefer to continue to live, however. The CO2 that you exhale came from elements that were fairly recently part of an
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by anon7725 5mo ago
> there has never been one since then There was one in 2020, granted it was the shortest on record.
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by anon7725 5mo ago
What are “your tools”? Many (most?) meaningful questions cannot be answered while you stall for time on a call. Or do you just mean ask an LLM the question and regurgitate its answer?

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